nana

See also: Appendix:Variations of "nana"

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English

Etymology 1

An aphetic form of banana.

Pronunciation

• enPR: näʹnə, IPA^(key): /ˈnɑːnə/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɑːnə

Noun

nana (plural nanas)

1. (informal) A banana.
2. (UK, slang) A foolish person.

   You look a right nana dressed up like that.

Alternative forms

• 'nana, narna, narner

Etymology 2

Variant spelling of nanna.

Pronunciation

• enPR: nănʹə, IPA^(key): /ˈnænə/

• Audio (General Australian):

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• Rhymes: -ænə

Noun

nana (plural nanas) (informal)

1. (term of endearment) One's grandmother.
2. A nanny.

Alternative forms

• nanna, nan

Anagrams

• A.A.N.N., Anna, anan, anna, naan

Abidji

Noun

nana

1. grandfather

Asturian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnana/ [ˈna.na]
• Rhymes: -ana
• Syllabification: na‧na

Adjective

nana

1. feminine singular of nanu

Balinese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nana/
• Hyphenation: na‧na

Etymology 1

Unknown.

Noun

nana (Balinese script ᬦᬦ)

1. head

Etymology 2

Unknown.

Adjective

nana (ᬦᬦᬵ)

1. broken

Bambara

Pronunciation

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Verb

nana

1. past of na

Bikol Central

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *nanaq, from Proto-Austronesian *naNaq.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnanaʔ/ [ˈn̪a.n̪aʔ]
• Hyphenation: na‧na

Noun

nanà (Basahan spelling ᜈᜈ)

1. pus

Derived terms

• magnana
• manana
• mananaan
• nanaan

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈna.nə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈna.na]

Adjective

nana

1. feminine singular of nan

Noun

nana f (plural nanes)

1. female equivalent of nan (“dwarf”)
2. female equivalent of nano (“boy”)
3. Clipping of estrella nana (“dwarf star”)

Derived terms

• nana blanca
• nana roja

Cebuano

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *nanaq. Compare Malay nanah.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: na‧na
• IPA^(key): /ˈnanaʔ/ [ˈn̪a.n̪ɐʔ]

Noun

nana

1. (uncountable) pus

Central Huasteca Nahuatl

Etymology

This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “is this from Spanish nana?”

Noun

nana

1. mother.

Central Mazahua

Etymology

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Noun

nana

1. mother

Champenois

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

nana

1. (Sommepy) bread

References

• Tarbé, Prosper (1851), Recherches sur l'histoire du langage et des patois de Champagne‎ (in French), volume 1, Reims, page 168

Chavacano

Etymology

From Cebuano nana.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnanaʔ/, [ˈna.naʔ]
• Hyphenation: na‧na

Noun

nanà

1. (Zamboangueño) pus

   Synonym: (Caviteño, Ternateño) materia

Chickasaw

Alternative forms

• nanna

Etymology

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Pronunciation

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Pronoun

nana

1. something

Darkinjung

Etymology

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Pronunciation

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Pronoun

nana

1. him (3rd person singular accusative)

Ese

Noun

nana

1. war

Esperanto

Etymology

From nano (“dwarf”, noun) +‎ -a (adjective ending), ultimately from Latin nānus.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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• IPA^(key): /ˈnana/
• Rhymes: -ana
• Hyphenation: na‧na

Adjective

nana (accusative singular nanan, plural nanaj, accusative plural nanajn)

1. dwarf

Fijian

Etymology

From Proto-Central-Pacific *nana, from Proto-Oceanic *nanaq, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *nanaq, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *nanaq, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *nanaq, from Proto-Austronesian *naNaq.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnana/

Noun

nana

1. pus (fluid found in regions of infection)

French

Etymology

Diminutive form of Anne, Anna, popularised after Zola's 1880 novel Nana.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /na.na/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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Noun

nana f (plural nanas)

1. (slang) chick, bird (especially when attractive)

   Synonym: meuf

   • 2000, Frédéric Beigbeder, 99 francs‎, Gallimard, →ISBN, page 19:

     Je suis le type qui vous vend de la merde. Qui vous fait rêver de ces choses que vous n’aurez jamais. Ciel toujours bleu, nanas jamais moches, un bonheur parfait, retouché sur Photoshop.

     I'm the guy who sells you shit. Who makes you dream of those things you'll never have. A sky that's always blue; chicks who are never ugly; a perfect, Photoshopped happiness.

Further reading

• “nana”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• Anna

Gabadi

Pronoun

nana

1. I; the first-person singular personal pronoun

   nana da aisa'aku ― I don't know.

References

• Oa, Morea and Ma`oni Paul. (2014-02-24). Tentative Grammar Description for the Gabadi Language. [working paper, draft created November 2013; editor: Eileen Gasaway]. Ukarumpa, Papua New Guinea: SIL International. Available online: .
  • "nana" (1st person singular normal pronoun) - p.7
  • Example 1 - p.8

Galician

Etymology

Probably with ultimate origin in baby talk.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnana̝/

Noun

nana f (plural nanas)

1. (archaic) mother; mama

Derived terms

• nai

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022), “nana”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018), “nana”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “nana”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “nana”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

Garawa

Etymology

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Pronunciation

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Determiner

nana

1. that

   Synonym: nanda

References

• Ilana Mushin, A Grammar of (Western) Garrwa (2012)

Hadza

Etymology

naha +‎ -na

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nana/

Adverb

nana

1. there

Hawaiian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈna.na/, [ˈnɐ.nə]

Verb

nana

1. Lānaʻi form of ulana (“to plait”)

Herero

Verb

nana

1. to pull

Ilocano

Etymology

From Proto-Philippine [Term?], from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *nanaq, from Proto-Austronesian *naNaq.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: na‧na
• IPA^(key): /ˈnana/

Noun

nana

1. pus (fluid found in regions of infection)

Isnag

Etymology

From Proto-Philippine [Term?], from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *nanaq, from Proto-Austronesian *naNaq.

Noun

nána

1. pus (fluid found in regions of infection)

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈna.na/
• Rhymes: -ana
• Hyphenation: nà‧na

Adjective

nana

1. feminine singular of nano

Noun

nana f (plural nane)

1. female equivalent of nano (“dwarf”)

Anagrams

• Anna, annà

Ivatan

Etymology

From Proto-Philippine [Term?], from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *nanaq, from Proto-Austronesian *naNaq.

Pronunciation

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Noun

nana

1. pus (fluid found in regions of infection)

Japanese

Romanization

nana

1. Rōmaji transcription of なな

Kapampangan

Etymology

From Proto-Philippine [Term?], from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *nanaq, from Proto-Austronesian *naNaq.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnanəʔ/ [ˈnäː.nəʔ]

Noun

nánâ

1. (pathology) pus

Kituba

Numeral

nana

1. eight

Krisa

Etymology

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Pronunciation

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Pronoun

nana

1. I

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈnaː.na]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈnaː.na]

Noun

nāna f (genitive nānae); first declension

1. dwarf (female)

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	nāna	nānae
genitive	nānae	nānārum
dative	nānae	nānīs
accusative	nānam	nānās
ablative	nānā	nānīs
vocative	nāna	nānae

Related terms

• nānus

References

• “nana”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “nana”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Livonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *nenä.

Noun

nana

1. Salaca form of nanā (“nose”)

References

• Andreas Johan Sjögren, Ferdinand Johann Wiedemann (1861), Livisch-deutsches und deutsch-livisches Wörterbuch
• Pajusalu, Karl & Winkler, Eberhard, Salis-livisches Wörterbuch (2009). Eesti Teaduste Akadeemia. Tallinn.

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnana/

Noun

nana

1. inflection of nan:
   1. genitive/accusative singular
   2. nominative dual

Malay

Etymology

Borrowed from Tamil அண்ணா (aṇṇā).

Pronunciation

• (Johor-Selangor) IPA^(key): /nanə/
• (Riau-Lingga) IPA^(key): /nana/
• Rhymes: -anə, -nə, -ə

Noun

nana (Jawi spelling نان, plural nana-nana)

1. brother (older male sibling)

See also

• abang
• kakak
• engko
• uda

Mansaka

Noun

nana

1. pus